Re: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ci: Update to Fedora 39

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 01:12:35PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 11:41:17 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 10:48:58AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > > Grrr, this broke because debian-10 was dropped from lcitool and > > > libvirt-python doesn't build trivially neither in debian-11 nor in > > > debian-12. > > > > > > I might check it later, but honestly got demotivated ... > > > > Yes, it is very frustrating when updating CI with lcitool when youj > > want to update the version of one particlar distro, and lcitool forces > > you to also replace a different distro, and the latter cause breakage > > for some reason. This has hit me time and time and time again. > > > > IMHO it is time to change the policy for lcitool, such that we do > > NOT remove old distro versions for *at least* 1 year. > > > > This will give us flexibility to update individual distros without > > having to do every distro in lockstep. It will let us debug problems > > with certain new distros, without blocking updates of the rest of the > > world.

> I'd suggest to flag the older distros which would be deleted with a flag > which will produce a warning, when regenerating the CI stuff. > > It might be nice to notify that the distro is out of our support policy > but without forcing update. Yep, that's a good idea, as its nice if 'lcitool manifest' warns us about outdated stuff.